The Management Minute by Andrew Walters

1. Talk to your neighbors Now is a great time to talk to your neighbors about QUALITY DEER MANAGEMENT. People for different reasons and you can't begrudge that just wants to put meat in their freezer. Still, most hunters would rather take a mature buck over a young...

Ducks Unlimited (DU) and Mossy Oak Brand Camo, the official camouflage of Ducks Unlimited, recently announced that Mossy Oak’s Original Bottomland is now Ducks Unlimited’s official camo pattern for hunting flooded timber. Mossy Oak Brand Camo, the official camouflage...

Never "over-call." When ducks are committed to your spread, hush, calling can then only hurt your chances. In many public areas too many hunters call too much. In such a case, not calling at all may best lure ducks within range. Be mindful of call volume. Loud,...

MIGRATION North America is divided into four major flyways for waterfowl migration. Mallards can be found on the Pacific, Central, Mississippi and Atlantic Flyways. Some mallards will travel over 1,500 miles during their annual fall migration. Migration altitude...

Everybody who knows me (well) recognizes my passion for managing wildlife, especially whitetails. But they also know my enthusiasm for hunting them…especially whitetails. For many, if not most of us gamekeepers, hunting whitetails was the birth of our enthusiasm for...

With a background in boundary surveys and now working as a Land Specialist, property lines are an essential part to my living. An older gentleman once told me, “There’s nothing more heavily guarded and prized than a man’s property line.” Yet, it wasn’t many years ago...

There is no question that the harvesting of antlerless deer is part of a solid deer management plan. With that understood, shouldn’t it make sense there should be some logic in which antlerless deer should be removed from a herd. A quick survey asked a dozen hunters...

Editor’s Note: Alex Rutledge of Birchtree, Missouri, has been a Mossy Oak Pro Staffer for the last 6 years but has been in the hunting industry as a professional hunter and TV personality for more than 20years. Today he co-hosts the “Bloodline Outdoors” TV show on the...

I got the day off work! I’m heading to the treestand.” So many hunters never even consider the wind direction, whether the thermal is in their favor, if they can approach their ambush location without being busted, and a dozen other details that will ultimately factor...

We hunt for many reasons, not the least of which is food, like venison. It’s 100 percent pure, all-natural organic protein. It can be pretty darned tasty too. However, just how palatable it is often depends as much on how it’s handled in the field as in the kitchen....